Crimean Khanate

The Crimean Khanate was a Turkic khanate and successor state of the Golden Horde that ruled over the Crimea from 1449 to 1783, with Bakhchisaray serving as its capital. The Crimean khans were descendants of Genghis Khan through his son Jochi, and they ruled over parts of Russia and Ukraine. In 1475, the Ottoman general Gedik Ahmet Pasha conquered the Crimea and joined it to the khanate, which became a vassal of the Ottoman Empire in 1478. In 1774, it was released as a nationally independent state, but it was formally annexed by the Russian Empire in 1783.